Building The Panama Canal on PBS
American Experience segment on the building of the Canal. Uplifting story. Most don't understand the significance of this project. Lots of archival footage. Well worth a look.
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It is facsinating. And the canal has been a wonderful example of how government and private industry can work together to build something that benefits everyone for long stretches of time.
But, of course, I do have to point out; It also demonstrate the horrors that can arise when project managers have a free hand to do whatever they wish with an unprotected workforce and little to no oversight. A lot of men died building that canal----and NO, it wasn't all due to malaria. Dave |
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I knew a few people who use to work in the canal zone. |
Yeah it's great. I doubt we'd be able to build it now, we're too weak.
5000+ dead, yikes. Pete |
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Once they succeeded in killing it, the Koch Brothers and their buddies would get another tax cut. Then the Chinese would step in and build it. Dave |
Boy, you sure see the world though Dem tinted glass eh? :p
Too bad it was built by a Republican :D Man we can really turn anything into politics can't we? Pete |
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Right, Teddy Roosevelt. Whom I'm sure would be branded "anti-business" for his monopoly busting legislation and his support for organized labor (As weak as it was.). |
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Dave |
Just another case of American exceptionalism run amok.
We should apologize. Chas |
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